CHAPTER MEETING

Tuesday, November 13th at noon, is our next chapter meeting!!

We are looking forward to an excellent presentation by Dr. Christian Bohnenstengel from SUU who will be presenting on accompanying. 

He will be sharing some great ideas on teaching our student's to accompany others and also tips to help improve our own skills.

We hope to see you there!!

Where: Caroline Jennings Home: 559 E 300 S #13, St. George (Caroline's Cell: eight 0 one -631-8697 if you need directions)

October Music Extravaganza!!

We had a great meeting in October! As a group, we had the chance to sight-read through several new books and newly edited collections. It was especially fun to read through some of the duets with 3 or 4 pianos playing each part!

 

In case some of you missed it, here is a list of the books we looked at and played from. There are still a few copies at The Music Store (929 Sunset Blvd) if you would like to take a look and play through them.

 

Some of the favorites of those who attended were: Northern Lights (an original collection of Romantic Scandinavian piano pieces), Blues, Jazz, Rock & Rags ( by Pixar composer, Mike Watts), and the American Popular Piano series (by Christopher Norton).

Blues, Jazz, Rock & Rags by Mike and Jennifer Watts - Book 1

Blues, Jazz, Rock & Rags by Mike and Jennifer Watts- Book 2

Northern Lights - Romantic Piano Pieces

Journey Through The Classics - Book 3

American Popular Piano Repertoire by Christopher Norton - Book 1

American Popular Piano Repertoire by Christopher Norton- Book 4

Bela Bartok for Children - Volume 1

Manhattan Swing Piano Solo by Naoko Ikeda

A Dark & Stormy Night - Faber & Faber

Tempo! Tempo! 40 Original Piano Pieces

Take A Bow! 8 Sparkling Piano Solos - Bk 2

Romantic Piano Music, Duets - 23 Pieces

Practicing The Piano

Aaron Copland Ballet Music for Piano

Astor Piazzolla - 15 Tangos & Other Pieces

 

Don't forget to attend November's Meeting! We are looking forward to an excellent presentation by Dr. Bohnenstengel from SUU who will be presenting on Accompanying.

When: November 13th, Noon

Where: Caroline Jennings Home 559 E 300 S #13

2012-2013 CALENDAR

We have a GREAT year of monthly meetings planned, and hope that everyone makes the time to come and share in the motivation that makes us better teachers!!  Even if you feel like you "know it all already," PLEASE come share your knowledge and experience with all the rest of us.  We love our association together as music teachers!!

(Time:  12:00 p.m.   Locations:  Caroline Jennings 559 East 300 South, St. George [tucked back in a small subdivision off of 300 South], The Music Store, Phoenix Plaza just off of Sunset Blvd.)

September 11th: Rachel France "Teaching the Young Beginner"
Location: Caroline Jennings

October 9th: Dr. Boehnenstengel "Accompanying"
Location: Caroline Jennings

November 13th: Reading Session "What's new in print music"
Location: The Music Store

December 11th: Dr. Timothy Francis "Modulations"
Location: Caroling Jennings

January 8th: Patrice Hunt "Becoming a NCTM, the Why and How"
Location: Caroline Jennings

February 12th: UMTA President Lois Mathews "Engaging and Appropriate Festival and Recital pieces"
Location: Caroline Jennings

March 12th: Sharing of Repertoire Lists
Location: Caroline Jennings

April 9th: Piano Technician Brittney Kirk "Maintaining and Understanding the Mechanics of Your Piano"
Location: The Music Store

May 14th: Closing Social
Location: Caroline Jennings

WELCOME 2012-2013 YEAR!!

We are excited to start a new year of enriching chapter meetings!  We will continue to hold most of our meetings at Caroline Jennings home. All meetings will be held at Noon on the second Tuesday of the month. At the first meeting in September, you will receive a list of dates and presenters for our meetings this year.

When: Tuesday, September 11th, Noon

Where: Caroline Jennings Home: 559 East 300 South #13, St. George

Presenter: Rachel France "Teaching the young beginner through singing, solfegge, dictation, reading, and transposition"

Warm Summer Days. . .

We've just had our first planning meeting as a new presidency, and are working on a great year of presenters and meetings for our St. George Chapter of UMTA.

Meetings will be held the second Tuesday of each month at noon.  Most meetings will be held at Caroline Jennings "centrally located" home near Dixie College.  Other locations will be announced when needed for that months meeting.

It should ab a great year of learning, growth, and fun friendships all wrapped into one!  If you know of other teachers who would like to benefit from this great association, be sure to invite them to a meeting!  They will be SO glad you did!!

END OF YEAR MEETING. . .

The new 2012-2014 UMTA- St. George Chapter Presidency:

Left to Right:  Patrice Hunt, Vice President; Rachel French, President; Carole Terry, Treasurer; Cynthia Coombs, Secretary

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The 2nd week of May, and our numbers were fewer, but we still had a great luncheon and had fun visiting and making plans for next year.  

We have been VERY blessed to have Caroline Jennings be our chapter president for the past two years.  She has done a REMARKABLE job! 

 (And it was very generous of her to open her home to us for our meetings and the luncheon!!)


Looking forward to good things in the Fall.  Hope everyone enjoys their summer break!!

MARCH'S CHAPTER MEETING

Our chapter meeting for March has been moved to Tuesday, March 20th (at noon), due to Spring Break.

There is a group of early childhood music teachers in town who are teaching the "Let's Play Music" curriculum.  It was developed by a BYU alum, and has spread through America and Canada.  It is similar to Kindermusik, Orff, Kodaly, etc.  

As piano teachers it is valuable for us to understand this program because their students are our potential students once they finish the program!  They have a partnership program where they will recommend teachers once students have finished their program.  There are three steps to become an affiliate.

1. Read the packet available through email from Caroline Jennings

2. Attend a teacher presentation (our March meeting)

3. The last step is to go attend an actual class.

Becoming an affiliate is totally up to you, but by coming to our meeting you will be almost half done!

Come learn something new!  

JAZZ UP YOUR TEACHING!!

Jerald Simon presented a great workshop on incorporating Jazz and improvising into our teaching curriculum.

His website has a wealth of information and several free downloads.  You might want to visit his website at Music Motivation






We learned how easy it is to teach a student a basic left-hand, three-note pattern, then to add right-hand 6th interval chords in any sequence, and the student gets an instant "new age" experience with music they "composed."

Jerald has a great talent and ability to improvise and change music into different styles that are engaging and inspiring to all ages, but which are especially attractive to youth.  His demonstrations and suggestions helped us see some new potential in our own studios.

All in attendance were given a CD and a jazz book to help us in our teaching.

It was a great 60 minutes!!  Thanks, Jerald!

(If you want some great resources, be sure to visit his website.  There's a wealth of information!!  MUSIC MOTIVATION)

Happy New Year!!

We have some great presentations to look forward to in the next few months.  Be sure to join us at the Piano Gallery at noon:

January 10 - Business Practices to Help Your Piano Studio presented by Coila Robinson, UMTA President

February 21 - Music Motivation 

presented by Jerald Simon

March 13 - Sight Reading 

presented by Nancy Jensen, NCTM

March 24-28 MTNA National Conference 

New York City

April 10 - Stephanie Talbot Stuart presentation

May 8 - Closing Social - Electing New Board Members

We'll see you there!!